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deactivate publishing feature

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I've created a Blank site -I then turned on the Publishing feature. As expected all sorts of new lists and document libraries were created along with it.

I've since deactivated the Publishing feature on the site, as it didn't turn out to be suitable for what we wanted - but the "system" libraries and lists that were created when I turned Publishing on, are still there - and I can't delete them manually.

They didn't automatically disappear when I deactivated the Publishing feature - so how do I get rid of them?

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That is obvious behavior. Once you activate the publishing feature necessary List/Libraries get created and that never deleted automatically even you deactivate the feature. You have to delete that manually.w: http://www.worldofsharepoint.com | t:
@sharesandip

Thanks for your replies guys, but the point of my posting was that I CANNOT delete those pages or folders - whenever I attempt to do so from Sharepoint Designer I get an error messages stating that the folders contain "one or more lists, document libraries
or galleries that your Web site requires in order to function correctly.." - but it clearly doesn't because the Publishing feature has been turned off?